The Creative Input arrives in Caruaru to propose a strategic environment favorable to the meeting of people and technologies, seeking, through design, to guide a transdiciplinar vision of development for the city and to design possible futures for a sustainable growth.

The seminar will take place in the Armazém da Criatividade and public spaces of the city from March 14 to 16, 2018. Teachers, students and professionals in the area of ​​design and fashion, but also all those interested in reflecting and exchanging experiences for the construction of collaborative scenarios, everyone is invited to participate in an exchange of experiences, reflections and debates with national and international exponents.

Dialogue tables and lectures are set up to bring question and review ideas, practices and behaviors. In the Laboratório Oxigênio (Oxygen Laboratory), moments will be created that integrate theories and practices of the most varied areas of knowledge that through collaborative tools and new technologies will shape the performance of the Input in public areas of the city of Caruaru.

The local context

The Meso-region of Agreste Pernambucano, where Caruaru is located, presents its own conditions for thinking about models of creative and sustainable cities. It has important industrial and artisanal poles, such as the clothing and jeans pole, the furniture pole and the craft center. It also has a Design Center, where they offer qualifications in Product, Graphic and Fashion, articulated with the graduations in Communication and Production Engineering, all of UFPE.